Adelle Sans Korean

Designed by Changseop Im Chorong Kim. Released 2023.

Adelle Sans Korean is a perfect counterpart to the Latin with distinct individual and family advantages: space-saving design, higher legibility in small sizes, modern appeal, additional room for complex marks, and a similar texture to the rest of the enormous Adelle Sans family.

빛의 축제 Festival of Lights

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2022 서울라이트 DDP의 주제 ‘우주적 삶(Designing Life at the Universe)’은 성큼 현실로 다가온 우주에서의 삶을 상상하는 동시에 무한한 공간인 우주의 관점에서 일상을 바라본다는 의미를 담고 있다.

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“어릴 적 천문학자를 꿈꿀 정도로 우주에 관심이 많아 프로젝트 참여를 제안받았을 때부터 내가 가장 잘 표현할 수 있는 주제라고 생각했다. 구상한 이미지들이 이미 오래전부터 머릿속에 있을 정도였으니까. 일반적인 행성과 성운, 은하 형태에 내 환상 속 우주의 형상을 연결하고자 했다. AI 엔진을 적극적으로 활용했지만 관람객은 인공지능의 개입을 눈치채지 못할 만큼 현실적인 질감과 색감, 패턴을 디테일하게 구현하는 것이 중요했다. 내 작품이 우주를 유영하는 듯한 경험을 선사하는 한편, 관람객 모두 자신만의 우주를 상상할 수 있도록 만드는 계기가 되었으면 한다.” 엔자임

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Even Mary looks baffled as to why someone would call their council about baking tins. The hilarious queries are revealed by the Local Government Association which has compiled a list of the 10 wackiest demands from residents to 370 councils in the last 12 months. Sifting throught he mountain of 50 million calls to local government offices in England and Wales, the LGA said they were often the first port of call for townsfolk. With mind-boggling questions like where to buy a shopping

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The Backstory

Adelle Sans Korean

A Korean font family that is flexible and personable in all text environments, including screens.

The original Adelle Sans, José Scaglione and Veronika Burian’s award-winning sans serif, provides a clean and spirited take on the traditional grotesque sans. The Korean design was created by Chorong Kim and Changseop Im of the Sandoll font foundry in the same spirit of the full Adelle Sans family.

Adelle Sans Korean was expected to handle the most demanding editorial design problems, which led to its modern and simplified forms. The combination of lively character and unobtrusive appearance inherent to grotesque sans serifs make it an utterly versatile tool for every imaginable situation. Whether for branding, signage, editorial, or advertising, the keyword behind Adelle Sans Korean’s use is flexibility.

In partnership with preeminent Korean font foundry Sandoll, Adelle Sans Korean was designed in seven weights that capitalise on legibility and provide the designer a wide range of text emphasis within their layout. By creating weights from Ultrathin to Extrabold, the Korean is a perfect counterpart to the Latin with distinct individual and family advantages: space-saving design, higher legibility in small sizes, modern appeal, additional room for complex marks, and a similar texture to the rest of the enormous Adelle Sans family.

Rooted in the belief that broad language support is crucial to modern type design, Adelle Sans Korean is yet another push in TypeTogether’s ongoing multilingual efforts. Adding language support is not a simple act of matching geometry stroke for stroke; each script must harmonise with the others while still maintaining its own identity. Korean script’s complexity includes its dense shapes and combined marks, making it more complex than its Latin counterpart. The Adelle family’s naturally clean and spirited shapes lend themselves to an appropriate Korean translation of the Latin’s colour and feel, matching the overall functionality, purpose, and cultural awareness.

Across the entire multilingual family — Latin, Arabic, Armenian, Chinese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Lao, Thai, now Korean, and with more on the way — each has been engineered to optically match the proportions of its counterparts. (Note: In addition to Korean, this font includes the full Latin character set which supports hundreds of languages.) Adelle Sans Korean’s exhaustive character set and OpenType support delivers consistent, flexible, and personable results in digital and printed multilingual documents and multicultural branding.

CREDITS
Lead design and concept
Chorong Kim (Hangul)
Changseop Im (Hangul)
Veronika Burian & José Scaglione (Latin)

Assistant type design
Azza Alameddine (Latin)

Engineering
Sandoll engineering team (Hangul)
Joancarles Casasin

Quality assurance
Azza Alameddine

Graphic design
So-Hyun Bae (Hangul)
Rabab Charafeddine & Elena Veguillas (Latin, Hangul)

Motion Design
Cecilia Brarda
Felicia Priscillya

Copywriting

Joshua Farmer

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